Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 27
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 2, 2006, 5:52 PM EST for 23 counties in Florida; 11 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2006, 5:52 PM EST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2006, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Ware County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Feb 2, 6:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Wakulla | 29 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:52 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia | 83 min |
| Feb 2, 3:10 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Feb 2, 5:09 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 96 min |
| Feb 2, 7:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 92 min |
| Feb 2, 11:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Gulf, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Feb 2, 4:08 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson and 5 more | 112 min |
| Feb 2, 5:54 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Florida, 2006Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.